NEED TO KNOW Two Steps Back India’s most popular prime minister in decades just pushed through the country’s biggest economic reform since […]

NEED TO KNOW Desperate Times Desperate times call for desperate measures, the saying goes. In Venezuela, those measures provide as good a […]

NEED TO KNOW Losing Faith For the past 22 years, South Africa has been running on faith. Steeped in the lore of […]

NEED TO KNOW A Spectacle of Catastrophe? Rattled by impeachment and corruption scandals, a vicious recession and a public health emergency thanks […]

NEED TO KNOW Being Different When Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others began flooding into Europe last year, some warned that terrorists might […]

NEED TO KNOW Pushing Poland For once, the pope is more liberal than the people. Pope Francis confronted conservative Poland head-on this […]

NEED TO KNOW Russian Dolls Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sent geopolitical ripples hither and thither on Wednesday when he called on […]

NEED TO KNOW Taking Stock Two years after the short yet brutal war between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, there are […]

NEED TO KNOW The Summer of Discontent After years of disastrous economic policies, Zimbabweans’ patience with 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe appears to […]

NEED TO KNOW Web of Wolves What makes a terrorist? Events over the weekend in Germany — as well as new revelations […]

Need to Know Elton John Won’t Beat AIDS Sixteen years after the decision that turned the tide against HIV/AIDS, the once-dreaded disease […]

Need to know The More Things Change Turkish officials have launched a purge on a scale that evokes a communist dictatorship cracking […]

Need to know No Peace To Keep The African Union has approved a peacekeeping force for South Sudan. But, in a twist […]

Need to Know The Same Old Same Old Tens of thousands of people congregated on the Promenade des Anglais Monday to observe […]

Need to Know Shock but Little Awe The failed coup d’etat in Turkey was shocking. But, as the dust from the brief […]

Need to Know An Eye for an Eye “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,” is one of Mohandas […]

Need to Know Pottery Barn Rule Redux As the United States plans to deploy 560 more American soldiers to help the Iraqi […]

Need to Know Troubled Waters When Wang Zhenzhong looks to the ocean, he sees China. “For thousands of years, fishermen have fished […]

Need to Know Asia’s Brexit moment Japan is on track to deliver another momentous political change to today’s tumultuous geopolitics. On Sunday, […]

July 8, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Blue Lives Matter The killings just won’t stop. Reeling from a series of mass shootings, the […]

July 7, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Tensions, New and Old Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are meeting in Warsaw […]

July 6, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Hair shirts for spies Medieval penitents used to suffer in itchy hair shirts as a way […]

July 5, 2016 NEED TO KNOW North Korea: How Bad Is It? North Korea appears to have achieved a worrying capability following […]